Cardboard Cities

Photographer Andy Rudak and model maker Luke Aan de Wiel created an amazing set of street scenes in miniature from cardboard. Each scene contains a single wild animal figure.

"I knew I wanted the shots to portray a scene of serenity and create an almost dreamlike scenario. No movement, merely a feeling of calm stillness....without the people there the city falls silent, its just you, the buildings and the animal," Rudak told Smithsonian. "The fact that the animal didn’t really belong in the habitat was to aid the feeling of being in a dream."